Based on recent field survey data collected in three African countries, this study examines interfirm and inter-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and subcontracting relationships; firm-university linkages; and firm-industrial association linkages. Employing univariate and multivariate an...

Combined residency training in both internal medicine and pediatrics has become a popular choice for postgraduate education in the 1980s. Most programs are relatively new, and little is known about their specific curricular structure and what program graduates do when they complete their training. Data collected from a survey of these combined program directors are described.

In this study the authors use 3 years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to evaluate alternative demographic, survey, and claims-based risk adjusters for Medicare capitation payment. The survey health-status models have three to four times the predictive power of the demographic models. The risk-adjustment model derived from claims diagnoses has 75-percent greater predictive powe...

The Ifo Investment Survey (IS) asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of technical factors, sales, finance, profit expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. Using the survey responses to these questions, we construct measures of aggregate technology and non-technology shocks to quantify their contributions to aggregate inve...

How do polls influence strategic voting under proportional representation? This paper derives a strategic calculus of voting for coalitions that generates testable predictions about the effects of polls on strategic voting in elections involving four or more parties. Incentives of leftist voters to vote for a centrist over a noncentrist party are shown to increase with the difference in expecte...

The Soy Moratorium is a pledge agreed to by major soybean companies not to trade soybean produced in deforested areas after 24th July 2006 in the Brazilian Amazon biome. The present study aims to identify soybean planting in these areas using the MOD13Q1 product and TM/Landsat-5 images followed by aerial survey and field inspection. In the 2009/2010 crop year, 6.3 thousand ha of soybean (0.25% ...

This study investigates the effects of a GSS and task type on status influence in a group decision making setting. Three support levels were examined: manual support. face-to-face GSS support, and dispersed GSS support. Intellective and preference tasks were studied. The dependent variables were status influence, sustained influence, and residual disagreement. Status influence and sustained inf...

Through a field survey on the religious beliefs among villagers of the Jingpo Nationality in Dengga Village, Nongdao Town, Ruili in Yunnan, the author of this article believes under the times background of constructing a harmonious contemporary society, as a religious belief and religious culture, Christianity has to be positively led to suit with the socialism society and play a positive role ...

This article examines the impacts of two types of meeting facilitation across traditional and GSS environments process and content facilitation on meeting processes and

Although GSS researchers recognize the importance of communication within the group in determining the final group output, little attention has been given to the information that the individual group members possess prior to the group activity as a basis for this communication. -I'he purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to characterize the pre-group, task-related information that individuals ...